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posted by Dopefish on Monday February 24 2014, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the flash-alternate-router-firmware-for-protection dept.

janrinok writes "A recent survey carried out by Tripwire, reported by the BBC, claims that "80% of the 25 best-selling routers available on Amazon are vulnerable to compromise". Security researcher Craig Young from Tripwire said exploits had been publicly discussed and published for more than one-third of these devices.

In a separate report, the Internet Storm Center (ISC) warned about a continuing attempt to exploit a vulnerability in 23 separate models of Linksys routers. A worm, called 'The Moon' is compromising Linksys routers and then scans for other potentially vulnerable systems. So far, wrote ISC researcher Johannes Ullrich in his blogpost, it is not clear why the routers are being compromised and what might be done with them. There are hints in the exploit code that the routers will at some point be gathered together into a network of compromised machines. Currently, he added, all the worm was doing was spreading to other Linksys routers.

The reason for the current European concern is a recent large scale attack on home routers in order to gather usernames and passwords for online bank accounts, reported by the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and elsewhere."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by isostatic on Monday February 24 2014, @07:53AM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday February 24 2014, @07:53AM (#5661) Journal

    I bought 5 pis, with grand intentions of putting them on networks that other devices just couldn't reach.

    Sadly the power connector (mini usb) is just too unreliable. I lost sight of 4 of the 5 pis within 2 months of deployment.

    Now a pi which could power itself off POE, that would be a device worth having.

    As for routers, I'm afraid I don't do open source :( I use mikrotiks. £30 for a wireless device that does PPPoE (via my BT VDSL modem) and OSPF? Not to mention it's use in slightly larger networks where running BGP is handy.